This video can not be played Extracts from Kathakali Katthak, Transmigration and Dhun In Devgiri Bilawal Touring Europe and North America, Ravi Shankar performed first as a dancer, but was ...

“Having gotten a hand of the strings, Panditji composed a dhun for me to play on the sitar. He hummed it out for me instead of playing it on the sitar,” she said. Raakhee remembers Ravi ...

Indian Sun is a new authoritative biography of the Indian musician Ravi Shankar's life, published to coincide with this year's centenary of his birth. In a career that spanned decades and ...

With contributions from: Ravi Shankar's daughter Anoushka, one of India's biggest music stars Zakir Hussain, George Harrison's wife Olivia, The Who's Pete Townshend and music historian Ken Hunt.

When I was a child growing up in the 1980s, Ravi Shankar was like a kindly uncle to me. I knew him only through his records; his burly, smiling face adorned the covers of the many Shankar LPs and ...

Ravi Shankar, the man who made traditional Indian sitar music popular worldwide, didn’t shoot to fame overnight. The musician—who was born on this day, April 7, in 1920—first began ...

Why is he a Trailblazer? The most famous sitar player of all time, trailblazer Ravi Shankar shared his passion for the sound and traditions of Hindustani classical music with the whole world.

The acclaimed benefit concert, which took place at New York’s Madison Square Garden in 1971, featured Harrison, Ravi Shankar, Ali Akbar Khan, Ringo Starr, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Leon Russell ...

Extracts from Kathakali Katthak, Transmigration and Dhun In Devgiri Bilawal Touring Europe and North America, Ravi Shankar performed first as a dancer, but was captivated when the virtuoso Indian ...